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Maha Marouan
The Pennsylvania State University
Maha Marouan is an African feminist scholar, writer, and documentarian. She is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African American studies, and African studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where she co-directs the African Feminist Initiative
(AFI). Her published works include Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction (2013) and a Women Make Movies documentary, Voices of Muslim Women in the US South (2015). Her most current works include
“Contemporary Notions of Race in Morocco: Blackness, Migration and the Legacy of Slavery” with Jadaliyya
Magazine (2023) and a Special Issue on “African Feminist Subjectivities” forthcoming with the Journal of Feminist
Formations (2024).
Talk Information:
Race, Migration, and the Legacy of Slavery in Morocco
January 19, 2024 | 9:00 AM
The recurring reports of violence, racism, and xenophobia against undocumented “sub-Saharan” African migrants prompts scrutiny into a complex and often dangerous public discourse about cultural identity, colonialism, and racism in the north of the continent. In this presentation, I will discuss the limitations of the racial binary of black vs. white as an analytical category in order to challenge the construction of these migrants as the ‘racial other’ in Morocco and support their human right to mobility and belonging.